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HLN Releases Roadmap for Open Source ICE Immunization Forecaster
HLN has released a product Roadmap for its award winning Immunization Calculation Engine (ICE). The Roadmap describes modifications that have already been scheduled for inclusion in new releases of ICE in the near future, in addition to ongoing changes that may be required to maintain compliance with Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) recommendations, as well as addition of new vaccine schedules, changes to core business logic, and additional functionality
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Two New Reports on Interoperability
Two new reports have been released on interoperability in September 2017 with potential impact on public health. The reports focus on the perceived successes and barriers to health information exchange and interoperability. We draw out the relevance of these reports to public health as well as some of our own observations on these issues from a past working paper.
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HLN Attends August ONC 2017 Technical Interoperability Forum
Several hundred attended a series of panel presentations and discussions over one and a half days covering a variety of topics related to interoperability, including discussion of the business case for interoperability, semantics, national networks, and application programming interfaces (APIs).
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HLN Attends 2017 Netsmart Public Health Summit
Dr. Noam Arzt, President of HLN, attended the second annual Netsmart Public Health Summit and delivered a presentation to the group.
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New Version of HLN’s Award Winning Open Source Immunization Forecaster Released
A new release (v1.8.1.0) of the Immunization Calculation Engine (ICE) is now available. ICE is a state-of-the-art open-source software system that provides clinical decision support for immunizations (CDSi) for use in Immunization Information Systems (IIS), Electronic Health Record (EHR) and Personal Health Record (PHR) Systems.
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HLN Presents at 2017 OSEHRA Summit
On June 13, 2017, Michael Suralik, project manager at HLN, co-presented with Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) colleagues in a session titled “Update on the Immunization Project Workgroup” at the 2017 Open Source Electronic Health Record Alliance (OSEHRA) Summit.
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